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Re: base backup and tar problems with disappearing files.

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On 15 Mar 2011, at 3:06, Rajesh Kumar Mallah wrote:

> Dear Friends,
> 
> While taking online basebackup we ignore tar exit codes of 1 . 
> However under certain circumstances tar exits we code '2' which 
> stands for 'Fatal Errors' . Eg in case of  "Cannot stat: No such file or directory"
> encountered while taking backup of the pgdatadir . My question is
> can we ignore such errors of "vanishing files" ? is it normal ?
> I think the situation is arising because some table which were created
> before start of backup were dropped during the backup. But that is
> quite normal also.


You should probably exclude the PG data directories from your file-system backups, there isn't much point in backing them up anyway.

Alban Hertroys

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